Picasso Personalities

It's been a good minute since I've updated some lessons. This Profile and Picasso lesson I did with my 3rd/4th graders and they had fun with it.

   First we started off with some numbers in profiling. They really enjoyed this as not many have done this before: We took number combinations and made face profiles. For example, a 9, 4, and a Z  was one of the combinations and it made a side profile. I showed them all the ways they could do this, with many different numbers and letters, then they practiced their own number/letters. It was a good connection with interpreting math with art!

After talking about profiles, I introduced Picasso's art and how he painted many different types of profile, usually one side looking forward and the other to the side. We took oil pastels to color them in. Here are some examples:

It's interesting how some kids interpreted a more realistic approach and others used different colors

and line patterns to make it more their own style.